Steven Weinberg
Professional information
- Name
- Steven Weinberg, Ph.D.
- Title/position
- Regental professor of physics and director, theory research group
- Affiliations
- University of Texas at Austin
- Biography
Steven Weinberg holds the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas, where he is a member of the physics and astronomy departments. He is the author of more than 300 articles on elementary particle physics, and his research has been honored with many awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. His books include, for popular readers, The First Three Minutes (1977); Dreams of a Final Theory -- The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (1993) and Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries (2001). His most recent professional book is Cosmology (2008).
- Web site address
- http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/weinberg.html
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